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you know its bad when the therapist wants to see you twice a week

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My mom thinks she’s helping. Telling me I’m valuable and deserving of love. But she also says that she misses you and that we should talk again soon and fix everything because this is “just a break”.

My mom thinks she’s helping, but suddenly I can’t breathe.

I feel like I’m drowning.

It’s cliché and overused, but I truly feel like I’m drowning. There aren’t any tears most of the time, at least not until I see a little something that reminds me of you. And then the dam is broken. Because why wasn’t I enough to be loved by you? To be cherished, to be loved. Why wasn’t I enough?

My throat is tight and I feel like bugs are crawling up and down my skin. I feel like I’m drowning.

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I feel like I’m drowning.

It’s cliché and overused, but I truly feel like I’m drowning. There aren’t any tears most of the time, at least not until I see a little something that reminds me of you. And then the dam is broken. Because why wasn’t I enough to be loved by you? To be cherished, to be loved. Why wasn’t I enough?

My throat is tight and I feel like bugs are crawling up and down my skin. I feel like I’m drowning.

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I scraped my knee.

I fell in the middle of the street and I scraped my knee. I could feel the blood running down my leg and soaking my jeans, they didn’t rip, although my skin did. It burnt when I cleaned the wound and I couldn’t walk without limping for a few hours. I scraped my knee and I kinda liked it. I liked the fact that I had an excuse to be taken care of. I liked the fact that the burn distracted me from the possibility of a broken heart. I also liked the feeling (rough and bumpy), and the look (the deep burgundy color of dried blood) of my destroyed skin. The pain distracted me from the fact that my girlfriend hasn’t asked about my feelings, or called me “sweetheart”, or ravished me in a long time.

I scraped my knee and I kind of liked it. I’ve always dealt better with physical pain than with my emotions.

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This is a comment someone appended to a photo of two men apparently having sex in a very fancy room, but it’s also kind of an amazing two-line poem? “His Wife has filled his house with chintz” is a really elegant and beautiful counterbalancing of h, f, and s sounds, and “chintz” is a perfect word choice here—sonically pleasing and good at evoking nouveau riche tackiness. And then “to keep it real I fuck him on the floor” collapses that whole mood with short percussive sounds—but it’s still a perfect iambic pentameter line, robust and a lovely obscene contrast with the chintz in the first line. Well done, tumblr user jjbang8

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Dec 4: Remember that time we learned Clark Kent totally peeked at all his Christmas presents with his X-Ray vision? (Justice League, “Comfort and Joy”)

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List of stuff for readers and writers

1. https://b-ok.lat/ - a site to download a myriad of books, popular and unpopular, classic and modern, poetry and prose, etc. it’s free, all you have to do is sign up with your email and download. the only “problem” is you can only download 10 files every 24 hours.

2. https://donjon.bin.sh/ - great site to get fictional names for characters, worlds, towns, deities, and more.

3. https://www.fantasynamegen.com/ - fantasy name generator. there are 10+ options including human/generic names, “evil” names, “Asian-like” names, elf names, reptilian-like names, town names, and surnames. there’s also the option to pick whatever length you want your fictional name to be.

4. https://www.babynamesdirect.com/ - another site for fictional names but only for characters. it gives you the name and some meanings behind the name. there are options like Indian names, Greek names, English names, German names, French names, Iranian names, an more. You can also choose whether you want names with the meaning of a word [example, names that mean ‘rose’ or ‘blue’ or ‘bird’], names that contains something [like a letter or a part of another name], and names that ends with something [a specific letter].

5. https://www.everydayknow.com/500-fantasy-surnames/ - a list of 500 fantasy surnames

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Writer’s Paradise Masterlist

As a Writer it’s my goal to help and uplift other writers and future Authors alike so here’s a Masterlist of resources I’ve compiled for you to use for your writing!

If you know any sites or have any recommendations for me to add, my asks/submissions are open!!

I’ll update these as I further my journey & research into becoming an Author one day, please reblog this to help your fellow writers!

Organization, Advice, and Research

Hiveword - A website with multiple writing resources available such as planning, index cards, articles with advice, name and character generators, and research capabilities. The free account offers the essentials such as scenes, characters, and plotlines.

Storyteller’s Roadmap - A website that helps you plan, write, and revise a story thoroughly. It including guides to write specific descriptions along with a thesaurus, templates and worksheets, an Idea Generator and more.

Helping Writers become Authors - A website in a blog style format with multiple articles and resources including writing mistakes, novel outlining, story structures, as well as character arcs and many more.

UK resources for writers - A website with resources for learning how to write with free and paid courses, writing opportunities, and more for writers in the UK.

Creative Writers Academy - A website with free classes guiding a step by step through the publication process.

Reedsy - A blog style website that includes Articles about publication and centered around learning how to publish a book with many tools and generators for writing.

Poets and Writers - A website for Writers and poets with resources like publishing your writing, finding your community and more.

Research Links for Writers - An HTML site with multiple links and resources for writers spanning upon multiple genres, subject matters, and history.

The internet public library - A website encyclopedia for essays and academic papers.

Writing realistic Injuries - A website with a list of different types of injuries and how to write them out including, impacts, and the effects of them.

RanGen - A website for writers with writing challenges, resources, and generators for things like personalities, characters, poisons, writing prompts, etc.

Ivy Tech Library - A library database website with a lot of resources for research including folklore and by region.

How to write a story by Creativepromptsforwriting on Tumblr - A different Masterlist with many more resources about writing, staying motivated, certain plots, etc.

Self Publishing

A step-by-step Video about Self Publishing - A video by Gilliain Perkins explaining her process of how she self published her Best Seller Novel.

How to format your book yourself through word - A video by Natalia Leigh with a step-by-step process on how she formats her manuscript. Her video covers: Page Size, Margins, Line spacing, Indentation, Chapter Styles, Page Numbers, and Headers.

Strategies for Marketing your book - A video made by iWriterly she explains 34 different strategies that can be used to market a book (while marketing her book lol!) and includes a downloadable checklist of these strategies

Masterclass How to copyright a book in 7 steps - An article guiding step by step how to properly copyright a self published book.

Fiverr - A freelancing website where you can find someone to make your illustrations, covers, and even get editors as well as someone to voice or make an audiobook for you.

Up Work - A freelancing website  where you can find someone to make your illustrations, covers, and even get editors as well as someone to voice or make an audiobook for you.

Beta Books - A website for Beta Readers can read your book and return their feedback. It lets you sort and filter your feedback by reader, chapter, or keyword, to get your book done.

Docucopies - A printing service website with a short guide about self publishing, buying copyright, and ISBN references and sites, all while including printing services (10% off of orders over 350$)

The Book Patch - A book printing service which includes Print-On-Demand services or cheap printing services allowing for smaller quantities. The Book Patch does not offer expensive publishing package, and keeps book publishing costs to a minimum.

Affordable Book Printing - A website with book publishing services including printing books but also formatting e-books, Cover Design, as well as Marketing and more

Generators & AUs

Random AU Generator - A website that generates AUs randomly.

Fantasy Name/Realm Generator - A website that generates random fantasy names.

Random Name Generator - A website that generates random names based on the options chosen with the ability to choose by region and gender.

Service Scape Writing Prompt Generator - A website that generates in depth writing prompts as chosen by the genre selected.

Writing Plot Generator - A website that generates plots based upon your selections of genre, title, etc.

Art Breeder - A website that can use a series of images to generate photos or the perfect character for your story.

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free audiobooks masterpost!!

AudioBookBay

torrenting site

WIDE collection

some catches: when looking for a book, type in the authors name instead of the title

once you find the book scroll down and click on the "torrent free downloads" option. it'll ask u to make an account. torrent account is free tho so don't hesitate!

utorrent is ur friend from there :)

This Vk Page

newer books

you can listen directly from the site

i havent tried downloading from this site but u can try chrome vkontakte downloading extensions

GoldenAudiobooks

very short collection

for mp3 downloading click on the book. before the url in the bar, type view-source: and scroll to find links in mp3. you can click them and download! (this might seem a little complicated sorry)

AudiobookLab

again v short collection

for mp3 downloading follow the same steps as goldenaudiobooks

Scribd

scribd is not free but i love using it so much. unlike audible it doesnt charge for every book so what ive been doing is using the 30 day free trials. ofc you have to fill in your card details but you can cancel it the next day and still use it for 30. ive used like 5 free trials with 5 different accounts

XAudiobooks

direct download

also its safe to check youtube! sometimes u find the least expected books there

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drake?

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New graffiti in Norwich!

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The Proposal (2009) dir. Anne Fletcher

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genuine question: where do people get pears??? i literally have never seen one in person. as a kid i thought they were made up for animal crossing, like persimmons

i dont know how to tell you this but persimmons are also real

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